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January 30, 2005, Sunday

Congress and the White House are still fighting over just how much to spend on highways, but they have resolved a 182-year-old dispute of more practical significance to most drivers, especially commuters stuck in traffic. The great taboo against...

JACQUELINE KENNEDY took a pair of valuable antique tables. Millard Fillmore took a coach and six bay horses, then sold them after he left the presidency. Ronald and Nancy Reagan, after his two terms in office, left the White House with more than $1...

''You can tell a lot about a leader by his final resting spot,'' says Manus Hand of Englewood, Colo., a 34-year-old computer programmer and history buff who is closing in on his quest to visit the grave of every U.S. President. Hand has been to 34 of...

When the Clinton Administration sought United Nations approval to intervene militarily in Haiti, it was instantly accused of undermining that holy of holies, the Monroe Doctrine. This is a tried and true way of gaining shocked attention since most...

August 14, 1994, Sunday

Last week, in a speech pregnant with bad memories, President Boris Yeltsin called upon the U.N. for an extraordinary grant of authority: make Russia the "guarantor of peace and stability in regions of the former U.S.S.R." The speech sent shivers of...